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Today is a good day! Decisions were made, some decisions are hard to make that require over thinking and analysing and others are a lot easier as you know they are just right! This one was easy to make! Today I accepted a new role and a new challenge.
I am looking forward to starting work at Couchbase as their Developer Community Manager. A role I am eager to start as I believe in open source and community, both of which are very important to me in any organisation. There are going to be some interesting times ahead, some time ...

I’ve had a lot of travel lately and I’ve had some time to think, when you take a step back and look at technology you realise it’s always changing always developing updating and adding new features. It got me thinking, I should also keep updating my knowledge bank. It’s all well and good to talk about technology to people daily which I do but I also needed to understand more of it in greater depth.
Last week I started my first class M101P – MongoDB 101 Python, online course for 7 weeks and given my travel lately ...

Before Christmas, I announced that MongoDB was planning to celebrate its own version of “March Madness” called MongoDB March Madness, an event featuring 27 of our European MongoDB User Groups. This is the second annual March MUG Madness, and we’re thrilled that the number of requests to take part has only continued to grow.
March Madness is an annual Division 1 college basketball tournament in the U.S. which leads up to the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Finals. MongoDB March Madness does not have much to do with the basketball game, however, since the event is happening in ...

A fun tongue twister to say, MongoDB MUG March Madness!
Last February, the MUG organisers around the world wanted to compete in a Global MongoDB User Group (MUG) Hackathon. The global challenge event was aptly named MongoDB March Madness. If you’re like me and had never heard of March Madness let me explain:
March Madness is an annual Division 1 college basketball tournament in the U.S. which leads up to the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Finals. MongoDB March Madness does not have much to do with the basketball game, however, since the event is happening in March ...

It has been very interesting to get to know the MongoDB Masters here in EMEA, having started in MongoDB back in June it’s been a whirl wind of adventure, meeting new people, hearing their stories, travelling to different communities and sitting down and hearing how they are involved. The masters often travel to speak at conference talking about their work, how they use MongoDB or are involved in our local communities running our MUGs.
Each community person comes from a technological different background and has a different perspective on how the project can be developed, many of which use ...